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1.) Can you force a dwarf out of a hospital? I have a good swordsdwarf in the hospital for a fractured hand, but my map has no water of any description, I haven't found the cavern layer, and I'd like for him to live.

2.) A lot of my random animals seem to be distracted (have a yellow down arrow). Can I fix this beyond making a temple in their pastures, or am I just going to have to tolerate them having the yellow arrow.

3.) What's going on with artifacts now. Everytime an artifact is created, the dwarf who creates it claims it as a heirloom in the name of some long forgotten relative ancestor. Can I still put the artifact weapon racks in the king's room without my legendary mason getting upset?

4.) Can I stop DF from moving my screen everytime the game pauses because I got a moody dwarf, migrant wave, etc? It's annoying to be doing something, and then my screen is about 10 Z levels above where I was.

Quote from: snow dwarf on January 26, 2018, 01:50:03 am

Wait, there are steel coloss... What's the plural of colossus? Colossi?

Colossus are only made of bronze, unless you mod the raws. There are FBs that can be made of steel, and you better have some candy spears/pikes ready on some legendary warriors if you see one coming. Unless it's a blob made of steel, at that point you just pull the lever and seal the cave.

Is it wrong that I'm disappointed that there are not steel colossi by default? I've seen them on player streams and I always thought they were part of the base game. So my army has no challenges left in the world besides hell, angels, and Zombie whales/orcas/etc.? How disappointing.

This is my first long term fort, because usually I make a fort and go "I could build this better" and start a new fort within about 3 years, so I've never really stuck around long enough to encounter any serious goblin threat.

So I have only one squad of 10 Dwarves, but they're all legendary in pretty much every skill that matters, and have mostly bronze armor with some imported steel weapons, shields, and helms sprinkled in (I'm currently candy hunting, but it's slow going). I then got a goblin "invasion". This invasion had about 50 goblins who were very quickly murdered by my squad with no help from traps or anything and no injuries or casualties on my side. My squad just murdered them and went back to training. At what point should I be concerned about goblin numbers? I would think that at some point they could overwhelm my squad of dorfs, but that hasn't been the case so far.

If I get Adamantine weapons and don't wake up the circus will I be fairly OK from Goblin invasions?

Anyone have any any funny/awesome/WTF moments they want to share? I'll start.

• So I just had a minotaur at my fort. He spawned next to a river where 2-3 fisherdwarves were fishing. The first fisherdwarf with no combat skills of any description broke the neck of the minotaur with one attack. He did suffer a broken knee, so he went to the hospital, got a crutch/splint/whatever, and then went back to catching mollusks, without even seeing the bone doctor. I like to imagine that my dwarf went "Pfff, puny cow interrupting me fishing...."
• A bronze colossus showed up at my fort. He died to a dwarf with a steel spear. He attempted to attack my militia with a bronze statue, that he got from god knows where. My fort doesn't have any bronze statues (well, I guess we now have one...)Where did he get that? Why was he just carrying it around? It's literally just a statue of a random Kobold.

I'm reasonably sure they haven't been killed, at least not on my map. I haven't seized any goods. They also aren't invisible as the lone diplomat has no trade goods for trade.

Is it possible that the capital fell to an enemy or something mid route?

Thanks guys I report victory. Also, some time later, someone engraved this in our dining hall/tavern.

https://imgur.com/VjTHob4
This is what counts as a relevant news in my fort apparently. That Cyclops, wereass, and other threats my military defeats in .2 seconds aren't worthy enough to engrave somehow. But a murderer getting crushed by a bridge in an unfortunate accident? Lets engrave it!

I think it was the traders. I've had no issues since they have left. Also, all of my dwarves seem to have been to at least 5 different forts. I wonder if that's a side effect of having a very savage world with tons of monsters?

Designating his bedroom as part of the inn/tavern worked! Thanks!